A video has been released of the Argentina national team talk from the locker room to the pitch for the World Cup final.
Lionel Messi led the Argentina national team onto the pitch for the World Cup final and walking behind him were Emiliano Martínez, Cristian Romero, Lisandro Martínez and Nicolás Tagliafico. Messi tells them at the start:
“Think about playing, nothing more. Calmness, forget everything else.”
In the video, Lisandro Martínez tells Nicolás Tagliafico:
“Come on Nico, you’re going to dominate. You’re going to dominate the entire match.”
And Emiliano Martinez says:
“Today is my day, today will be for the history books.”
El video completo de la arenga de Messi y el camino hacia la cancha:
“Vamos Nico, lo vas a borrar todo el partido”.
“Vamos Dibu, firme en todas”.
“Hoy es mi día, hoy será para la historia”.No parecen frases de un grupo que saliera a perder. pic.twitter.com/FqqZtfXpV5
— Los Herederos de Alberdi (@LHDA16) July 21, 2026
I just analyzed the match..now I understand we were completely outsmarted by the ‘tactics’ not by the bad performance of our players or the other issues.. Scaloni failed against his master.
It was like a chess board intelligence perfection Spain coach fielded the players. Scaloni was his student, so he knew all of Scaloni’s ideas.
Whenever our players got the ball Spain cut the passing options with almost perfection. We would have tried different tactics when match progressed. But..we didn’t have proper players to counter this.
Simeone was not ready and Nico was not upto the standard we needed..!
Scaloni didn’t plan a replacement for Di Maria. We needed fast wingers with ball control, dribble and score. Not needed the world class..but at least with these skills. We could have tried the long ball continously and unsettled their shape/tactics, that would have opened up the opportunities for us.
I don’t know who can do that role of dimaria.
We have to try Prestianni, Garnacho(but attitude problem), Simeone(hopefully he improves, good for pressing),
From the new boys..Subiabre and Maher Carrizo (I have high hope on them).
Any other..?
Long ball to fast wingers, Alvarez sticking on CBs than doing all the dirty work,…it would have been a different story.
FIFA and the United States worked together to ensure Argentina lost.